Games like Until We Die

If Until We Die scratched a dark and tense itch for you, keep reading. These games are a good place to start.

Grim Nights
A side-scrolling survival strategy where your village has one job: last 13 days against the undead. Dig for gold by day, train soldiers, and hold the line each night. It is hard, it is tense, and losing a village only makes the next run sharper.
Also in Colony sim · Dark, Tense, Retro
87% of 1,509 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$2.99
Final Outpost: Definitive Edition
Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive?
Also in Colony sim · Dark, Tense, Retro
76% of 213 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$9.99
The Ember Guardian
Defend the embers of hope in this roguelike strategy game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Recruit and command workers to gather resources, build your camp and set up your defenses during the day. When night falls, fend off waves of deadly creatures with powerful, upgradable weapons.
Also in Colony sim · Dark, Tense, Retro
81% of 297 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$19.99
After the Collapse
ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.
Also in Colony sim · Dark
77% of 201 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
The Last Haven
A nuclear winter is coming and the temperature drops every day. Feed, heat and arm a small settlement, keep discipline from cracking, and hold out until spring. A grim, demanding colony sim where one bad call can cost lives.
Also in Colony sim · Dark, Tense
60% of 1,456 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$19.99
Infection Free Zone
Pick any real place on Earth, from your own street to a city across the ocean, and turn it into a survivor settlement after a virus empties the world. Scavenge familiar buildings by day, then hold your walls against fast, aggressive infected hordes every night. A colony sim with a map you already know.
Also in Colony sim · Dark, Tense, Scary
80% of 16,823 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 480$24.99
Decision: Red Daze
An isometric action RPG where survival and tower defense share one wasteland. Explore a Dust Bowl gone wrong, claim abandoned buildings, turn them into fortified settlements, and level up any survivor you rescue. It is a grind toward safety in a world that keeps pushing back.
Also in Colony sim · Dark, Tense, Retro
74% of 861 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20$3.99
After Inc: Revival
Decades after the Necroa Virus, survivors climb out of their bunkers into a green, broken Britain. Build settlements, scavenge ruins, train fighters and make the calls that shape a new society, from food policy to government. A survival colony sim with bite, from the creator of Plague Inc.
Also in Colony sim · Dark
78% of 1,543 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 158$10.79
Rebirth evolution
2D pixel style simulation business strategy game Build and operate your own survivor base, recruit and cultivate various professional combatants. Clear zombie strongholds, reduce regional infections, survive in the apocalypse, and establish your own power.
Also in Colony sim · Dark, Retro
62% of 125 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
They Are Billions
A steampunk strategy game on a post-apocalyptic planet: build and run a colony of the last surviving humans while billions of infected roam the world in massive swarms. Lay out buildings, manage resources, raise walls and an army, and pray one zombie never gets in. Tense, punishing and hard to put down.
Also in Colony sim · Dark, Tense
85% of 46,427 Steam reviews are positive$29.99
Ash & Adam's Existential Treads
A mini action city-builder in a post-post-apocalyptic world. Grow your settlement. Fend off waves of enemies. Restore nature.
Also in Colony sim
92% of 353 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$6.99
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
The gates of hell have opened, and your answer is a well, a log cabin and a very sharp stick. Judgment is a colony sim where you grow a survivor camp, scavenge a demon-infested world and research both science and dark magic to push the hellspawn back. A grim, tense, deeply replayable fight for one more day.
Also in Colony sim · Dark, Tense
80% of 2,114 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$19.99

Cheaper than Until We Die

Grim Nights

Dig, build and train by day, then hold your village against the undead every night.

$2.99

Final Outpost: Definitive Edition

Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse.

$9.99

After the Collapse

ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors.

$14.99

After Inc: Revival

Decades after the Necroa Virus, survivors climb out of their bunkers into a green, broken Britain.

$10.79

Decision: Red Daze

Lead a squad of survivors through a zombie-ridden wasteland, claim its ruins and turn them into settlements that can hold out against the Red Daze.

$3.99

Rebirth evolution

2D pixel style simulation business strategy game Build and operate your own survivor base, recruit and cultivate various professional combatants.

$8.99

Ash & Adam's Existential Treads

A mini action city-builder in a post-post-apocalyptic world. Grow your settlement. Fend off waves of enemies. Restore nature.

$6.99

Infectonator: Survivors

Run a group of survivors through a zombie apocalypse: scavenge, build, fight, and hope someone makes it out.

$9.99

Dig or Die

Dig for resources, craft laser weapons and turrets, and engineer a base that survives the monsters it made angry.

$5.39

Forsaken Fortress Strategy

Forsaken Fortress Strategy is a squad based, survival strategy game focused on base building and scavenging.

$9.99

Sheltered

Ration every drop, scavenge the wasteland above, and make the calls that decide who survives down in the bunker.

$4.49

The Withering

Have you ever thought or imagined how our world would look like after an apocalyptic event? What would we do if some of us were to survive?

$9.99

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Ash & Adam's Existential Treads

A mini action city-builder in a post-post-apocalyptic world. Grow your settlement. Fend off waves of enemies. Restore nature.

$6.99

Keep Her Safe

Scavenge guns, bolt them onto your base and hold off zombie hordes until the rocket flies.

$9.99

After Inc: Revival

Decades after the Necroa Virus, survivors climb out of their bunkers into a green, broken Britain.

$10.79

The Ember Guardian

Defend the embers of hope in this roguelike strategy game set in a post-apocalyptic world.

$19.99

Pawns of War

Build a squad of Pawns, customise their guns, and send them into grid battles where every run plays out differently.

Free

Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days

Keep a fragile group of survivors fed, armed and moving through a grim, tense story where every choice can cost a life.

$24.99

Signal Zone

Defend your base against increasingly dangerous enemy waves each night in this minimalist survival strategy.

$11.99

Final Outpost: Definitive Edition

Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse.

$9.99

Urban Strife

A turn-based tactical survival RPG with real bullet physics, factions with their own agendas and a shelter to rebuild.

$34.99

Vectorio Classic

Claim resources, research weapons and hold the line against waves of enemy shapes in a clean little strategy sandbox.

Free

Craft Hero

Gather resources by day, build and recruit by noon, defend your village by night!

$4.99

Lumencraft

Mine glowing Lumen in a fully destructible underground, build your base, and shoot back when the swarms come.

$19.99

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